Thursday, 10 November 2011

ROUGH LEGS AT THE ROUGHS

As most of you will know a Rough Legged Buzzard has taken up residence at the old gravel works at West Hythe opposite the Roughs appropriately enough.The Roughs are a rough area of ground below the escarpment west of Hythe which are subject to regular landslips and have never been built on for obvious reasons,apart from that is a wartime listening ear which can still be seen but is fenced off these days as it is in a parlous state.I digress,back to the buzzard,while on the phone to Ian Roberts as to where best to see the bird I turned around and there it was 100 yards behind me.
When I found it again it was sat on one of the big earth pyramids being formed on the site,it soon took off and was lost to view.

the first encounter
After this it was a case of wait and see and eventually it came round again,hovering kestrel like and seemingly finding plenty of prey,which is usually small mammals.

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born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties.
I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy.
Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire
Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.